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Divine daysLeon Forrest

Divine days

Leon Forrest
19921135 pages
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Fabulous, wildly comic, and Ulysses-like, Divine Days explores the mythical world of Leon Forrest's literary kingdom, Forest County. It is a huge oratorio of the sacred and the profane, set in bars, churches, and barbershops over a crucial seven-day period in the life of would-be playwright Joubert Jones during February 1966. Divine Days creates a profound microcosm of African-American life. It is the most prodigious literary creation since Ellison's Invisible Man forty years ago. Joubert Jones - playwright, journalist, bartender, lover - confronts and transcends the power of a fantastic…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2023
    Northwestern University Press · 1168 pages · 9780810145702
  • Other · English · 1995
    W. W. Norton & Company · 1135 pages · 9780393312218
  • Other · English · 1993
    Norton · 1135 pages · 9780393036121
  • Other · English · 1992
    Another Chicago Press · 1138 pages · 9780929968247
FictionAfro-AmericansAfrican American dramatistsForest County (Imaginary place)African AmericansAfro-American dramatistsForest county (imaginary place), fictionAfrican americans, fiction